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The formulation 'egalitarian strangeness' is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple (Short Voyages to the Land of the People) (1990), a collection of essays by the contemporary French thinker Jacques Ranciere. Perhaps best known for his theory of radical equality as set out in Le Matre ignorant (The Ignorant Schoolmaster) (1987), Ranciere reflects on ways in which a hierarchical social order based on inequality can come to be unsettled. In the democracy of literature, for example, he argues that words and sentences serve to capture any life and to make it available to any reader. This book explores embedded forms of social and cultural 'apportionment' in a range of modern and contemporary French texts (including prose fiction, socially engaged commentary, and autobiography), while also identifying scenes of class disturbance and egalitarian encounter.

Social classes --- Social classes --- Social change --- Social change --- Social classes in literature. --- French literature --- French literature --- History --- History --- History --- History --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Contesting social apportionment --- inequality --- Voices from below --- contemporary French fiction --- class intersections --- the theory of radical equality --- Social class in modern French literature --- Jacques Rancière --- The manual and the intellectual in modern French literature --- social order

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Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of cinema into writing, Wall-Romana documents the long history of cross-media concepts and practices often thought to emerge with the digital. In showing the cinematic consciousness of Mallarmé and Breton and calling for a reappraisal of the influential poetry theory of the early filmmaker Jean Epstein, Cinepoetry reevaluates the bases of literary modernism. The book also explores the crucial link between trauma and trans-medium experiments in the wake of two world wars and highlights the marginal identity of cinepoets who were often Jewish, gay, foreign-born, or on the margins. What results is a broad rethinking of the relationship between film and literature. The episteme of cinema, the book demonstates, reached the very core of its supposedly highbrow rival, while at the same time modern poetry cultivated the technocultural savvy that is found today in slams, e-poetry, and poetic-digital hybrids.

French poetry --- Motion pictures and literature --- Motion pictures in literature. --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- Moving-pictures in literature --- History and criticism. --- André Breton. --- Charles Chaplin. --- Jean Epstein. --- Stéphane Mallarmé. --- cross media studies. --- early cinema. --- film studies. --- literary criticism. --- modern French literature. --- poetry.